A memorial service for Charlie Kirk took place last Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The crowd packed into a 63,000-seat arena, and another 20,000 were directed to an adjacent venue. Half of them were sporting bright red MAGA hats, making it look more like a campaign rally. Speakers included the president, vice president and several senior members of the administration together with Kirk’s wife, Erika. It was quite an event, the sort of send-off that might be reserved for senior statesmen, respected political figures and perhaps war heroes. Kirk was none of those things, but nonetheless Trump and his cohort thought it necessary to be there - mainly, and this is the incredible part, to launch an attack on the amorphous deep-state group they hold responsible for his murder.
Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, gave a particularly shocking speech, which really should be listened to. He is said to be the malign influence behind the throne, and you could easily believe it.
Vice President JD Vance eulogised Kirk and said his ‘enduring legacy’ was that he believed "we were all children of God and he treated everyone with grace." The "kind-hearted" Kirk has said that stoning gay people was God's 'perfect law', so I think he only treated straight white people with grace.
Vance said that Charlie “understood the best Evangelisation was not about what you said but about the way you lived your life. And in this city he lived his life well.”
Kirk certainly did that. An article in a Tucson online news outlet from October 2023 spells out how he did it by "latching on to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign." His Turning Point USA organisation has raised roughly £250 million since then, enriching Kirk and his allies. Top TPUSA officials are said to have "collected pricey salaries, enjoyed lavish perks and steered at least $15.2 million to companies that they, their friends and associates are affiliated with."
Leaders use private jets or first-class air travel. TPUSA Endowment had more than $55 million in reserve in 2022, while donors were still being asked to give more. The organisation even 'sponsored' Kirk's lavish wedding reception in 2021 at a luxury hotel. And listen to this:
"A $999,000 payment was made to a limited liability company in Nevada for a 'research project on educational outputs,' according to 2020 tax documents. The company, called Clocktower LLC, was dissolved in 2022, and the only corporate officer listed in its business filings is the president of a firm that advises on tax avoidance strategies."
I am convinced Kirk saw Trump and his MAGA movement simply as a money-making scam. And I also believe that many of the 80,000 who attended his memorial are the willing dupes who provide the cash.
James Comey
James Comey is a former Director of the FBI, until Trump fired him in 2017. The president has been after him ever since. Trump has tried to get charges against Comey, but one prosecutor was dismissed because he couldn't find anything to investigate. Now another more compliant lawyer has been appointed.
She is a Trump lackey, an insurance lawyer with zero prosecution experience. Lindsey Halligan has now indicted Comey on charges of making false statements to the House Judiciary Committee in 2020, which, considering she is working on behalf of Donald Trump, the world's most prolific liar, is very rich indeed.
This is - quite literally - a Trumped-up charge with no chance of success, as you can read for yourself in this detailed analysis HERE. What it does demonstrate is the extraordinary lengths the administration is prepared to go to cow Trump's opponents.
Pete Hegseth
In what may turn out to be a worrying development, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, has called a meeting for next Tuesday for all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. There are apparently 800 generals alone serving in US forces so quite how many will be assembled next week at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, is hard to say. But without doubt, it’s a lot, and quite unprecedented.
These people are having to travel back from bases across the world, presumably at considerable cost and inconvenience. I assume it could mean naval vessels having to divert to a port, and hundreds of unscheduled flights, not to mention making huge areas of the globe vulnerable while senior officers are absent.
Nobody knows quite what to expect. Hegseth didn’t elaborate on the purpose, and there has never been a meeting like it in the past.
The Washington Post report on it HERE.
Their report speculates that top administration officials have been preparing a "new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defence the nation’s top concern." (my emphasis)
Is Trump trying to ensure the military is led by MAGA loyalists to consolidate his hold on power? Is he planning to deploy the military in cities and states across the USA to put-down protests? This is precisely what dictators do.
I really wouldn't put anything past Trump or Miller now.
